Corner-brace.



- V PATIENTED JAN. a, 1903. J. P. Jonson. comma BEACH.

APPLICATION FILED JUNEZ, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAH P. JOHNSON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CORNER-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZPatent No. 717, dated January 6, 1903- Applicatioii filed June 2, 1902. Serial No. 109,921. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH P. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Braces, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates particularly to a cornor-brace or stay for vehicle-bodies; and it consists in the novel and peculiar construction of the stay or brace, whereby the sides and ends of the body may be firmly connected without necessitating the use of the usual post.

The invention further consists in other details of construction, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional perspective view of a carriage-body, showing my corner-brace applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section taken on line a; m of Fig.1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the top of one corner-bar. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the complementary bar, and Fig. 5 is a bottom plan View of the body-corner.

In the drawings thus briefly described, A designates the bottom or sill of the carriagebody, B one of the sides, and Can end section.

The corner-brace that I use in connection" with the body consists of a bar D, formed of.

sheet metal, angle-shaped in cross-section, as shown. The upper end of this bar has its edge cut away at the center or angle proper and the separated edge portions turnedover, as indicated in Fig. 3, forming angle or L shaped flanges E. The lower end of the bar is slitted and the furcations F and G cut away, so that when bent into an inward and laterally-projecting position they will form a miter-joint with each other and rest upon the sill of the vehicle-body.

In use the corner-iron is arranged in the manner shown in Fig. 1, with the flanges at its top hooked over the edge of the box-corner and the lower furcations secured to the sill by screws H. I may and preferably do employ a similar bar to cover and protect the exterior of the box-corner. In construction this bar (designated by the reference-letter I) is angle-shaped in cross-section and is slitted at its opposite ends. The top furcations J and K are cut away and shaped so as to fit between the spaced flanges E and form in connection with said flanges a continuous strip for the upper edge of the corner of the body. These inwardly-extendin g portions of the bar are preferably apertured, as at a, and

are secured to the, box by suitable nails or screws 0.. The lower furcations M and O are adapted to extend beneath the bottom of the vehicle-body and to overlap and are connected to the body preferably by a single nail or screw P, as shown in Fig. 2.

From the description of the corner-brace it will be seen that the latter may be readily struck out from sheet metal, which allows the device to be manufactured at slight cost, and may also be applied to the vehicle-body in such manner as to form a combined protectingstrip and strengthening-brace for the corner, dispensing entirely with the use of wooden posts.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. Inacarriage-body, the combination with the box comprising side and end members, of a sheet-metal corner-brace therefor, comprising two complementary brace members in the form of angle-bars fitted respectively in and about a vertical corner formed by the juncture of a side and end, the inner bar carrying at its upper end spaced laterally-projecting flanges extending in a common horizontal plane over the top edge of the box-corner, and having its lower end slitted and bent inwardly to engage the box-bottom, and the complementary angle-bar being slitted at its opposite ends,the upper and lower furcations extending respectively over the upper edge of the box intermediate of the flanges, and beneath the box-bottom.

' 2. In a carriage-bod y, the combinationwith the box comprising side and end members, of

a corner-brace therefor comprising a brace member in the form of an angle-bar fitted within a vertical corner of the body formed by the juncture of a side and end, said bar terminating at its upper end in spaced angleshaped flanges engaging the upper edge of the box-corner, and havingits lower end slitted ing its lower furcations extending beneath 10 and the furcations turned inwardly to enthe box. gage the box-bottom, and a complementary In testimony whereof I affix my signature angle-bar, slitted atits opposite ends,coveri1}11g in presence of two witnesses.

5 and bracing the exterior of said corner, t e

furcations at the upper end of the bar fitting JEREMIAH JOHNSON between the laterally-projecting flanges of Witnesses: the inner bar and formingin connection there- H. G. SMITH, with a continuous protecting-strip, and hav- P. M. HULBERT. 

